Term 2—Newsletter No. 5

A Special Day at CTK on Friday 16th November….

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Year 6 Families

Year 6 Parent’s Evening has

been re-scheduled for Tuesday

20th November from 3:50pm to 6:00pm and

on Wednesday 21st November from 4:20pm

to 6:30pm. Please phone or pop into the

school office to arrange an appointment with

Mr Rees.

Morfa Bay Camp Meeting is on Wednes-

day 21st November and a member of the

Morfa Bay staff will be coming to talk about

our residential week.

Attendance at CTK:

We are closely monitoring attendance at CTK and

during parent’s evening before half term all families

were given their child’s attendance data.

We have changed how we celebrate attendance at

CTK,. Children who achieve 100% attendance during

a term will receive a certificate and a sticker. Children

who achieve 95% or above will receive a special at-

tendance sticker. We will still have the Class Attend-

ance Cup, which was won by Year 5 —Saturn class

with 98% attendance in term 1.

We are really pleased as last term our overall school

attendance has improved to 96.7% from 95% last

year.

Remember every day and every lesson counts!

Year 4 Class Assembly is

9:15am on Thursday 22nd

November 2018.

We hope families are able to

come!

Remembrance Day Assembly

We had a lovely Remembrance Assembly on

Monday 12th November, We held a two minute

silence and every child laid a poppy on the

School’s Altar. During the day, children did activi-

ties linked to the First World War.

Tag Rugby Competition

Children from Years 2 and 3 represented CTK at a Thornbury Tag Rugby Competition. Our rugby team played four matches and worked really well as a team. Throughout the morning the children improved all their skills especially passing and tagging even though it was cold. A huge thank you to Miss Wright and Miss Holloway who organised the event plus all the families and our super players: Finlay, Alice, Vittorio, Finley, Emilia, Marcus, Jenna, Alcide, Sophie and Emmett—we are so proud of you all!

Easy Fund Raising

Our Governors have created a

school Easy Fund Raising account

for the school.

https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/

christthekingbristol/

It is really easy—all you need to do is use the link

above every time you book a holiday or hotel

room, insure your car, add to your wardrobe or do

your weekly grocery shop. There are over 3,000

retailers to choose from. The funds raised will

help the school to purchase more equipment for

the benefit of the school. You can even download

an app. Thank you CTK FGB

Christmas Nativities Our Year 1 and 2 children will be leading the Nativity Play called “Jesus in the Manager”. A letter with infor-mation about tickets will be sent out soon. The Performances are on: Wednesday 12th December @10:00am Thursday 13th December @ 6:30pm On Thursday 13th December, children in Yr 1 and 2 will need to be back in school for 6:00pm for the evening performance. There will be a crèche run by First Steps and the KS2 staff. Foundation Nativity Our Reception learners will be having their own Nativity Event on Friday 14th December at 9:30am. Mrs Wanless will send out information to all families, please save the date! Years 3 and 4 This year, our Year 3 and 4 children will be leading their own school performance in May 2019. We are really excited for our lower Key Stage 2 children and we are looking forward to their play.

Christmas Carol Service. The Christmas Carol Service is on Thursday 6th December at 6:30pm at Christ the King Church.

All children are invited to come with their families to this event. The children will lead us in carols, read-ings, prayers and a tableaux to celebrate this special time of year.

We hope you will be able to come and join us. Letters will be sent out soon.

Open Day @ CTK: Our last open morning for September 2019 –2020 intake is on Wednesday 21st November from 9:30 –11:30am. The school will be open to all parents and families with children born from 1st September 2014 to 31st August 2015.

Our next INSET is on Friday 21st December 2018 and

school will close on Thursday 20th

December at 3:30pm.

Dates for November and December 2018

Parish Mass at CTK

On Sunday 18th November, children from

CTK will be leading the readings, collections

and offertory including performing the Gospel

at Christ the King Parish Church. We

hope you will be able to come and

join us.

November 2018

Date Class/Year Group Event Time

Friday 16th Whole School Non-school uniform and cake sale,

please look at the poster.

All day

Sunday 18th Whole School Parish Mass at CTK Church 11:00am

Monday 19th Years 1, 2 and 4 Explorer Dome Am

Tuesday 20th Year 5 Class Mass 11:00am

Tuesday 20th Year 6 Parent’s Evening 3:50pm—6:00pm

Wednesday 21st Whole School Open day for INTAKE 2019-20 9:30am -11:30am

Wednesday 21st Year 6 Morfa Bay Meeting 3:30pm—all families

Wednesday 21st Year 6 Parent’s Evening 4:20pm—6:30pm

Friday 23rd Whole School Non-school uniform hamper gifts or

chocolates for the school fair

All day

Friday 23rd Year 5 – Saturn

Class

Year 5 – Celebration Assembly 2:45pm – all families welcome

Monday 26th Whole School CTK Feast Day – Mass @

CTK parish

10:30am – all families welcome

Friday 30th Chaplaincy Team Commissioning Mass at Clifton Cathe-

dral

am

Friday 30th Whole School Non-school uniform bottles for the

school fair

All day

Friday 30th Whole School PTFA Christmas Fair 5pm –7pm

December 2018 Date Class/Year Group Event Time

Wednesday 3rd Whole School PTFA Christmas Shop pm

Thursday 6th Whole School Carol Service @ CTK Parish 6:30pm – all families welcome

Friday 7th Whole School Books for Bugs in the school hall 3:00pm onwards in the hall

Wednesday 12th Year 1 and 2 Christmas Nativity Play 10:00am

Thursday 13th Year 1 and 2 Christmas Nativity Play 6:30pm

Friday 14th Reception Christmas Nativity Play 9:30am - information next term

Tuesday 18th Whole School End of Term 2 Certificate Assembly 9:15am – all families welcome

Tuesday 18th Whole School Christmas Dinner and Christmas Jump-

er day

Wednesday 19th Whole School Advent Mass 10:00am – all families

welcome

Wednesday 19th Whole School Christmas Parties in the afternoon Information next term

Thursday 20th Whole School End of term 2 3:30pm

Friday 21st Whole School INSET DAY – School closed School closed to pupils

Christmas Holidays from Monday 24th December to Friday 4th January 2019.

January 2019

Date Class/Year Group Event Time

Monday 7th Whole School Start of Term 3 8:45am

Tuesday 8th Whole School Epiphany Mass 10:00am – all families welcome

Thursday 10th Year 6 Year 6 visit to the Life Skills Centre pm

Christmas Day Mass at CTK Parish Church

Father George would like to invite all children to join

the Parish Mass on Christmas Day at 10:00am. He

would love the children to come in Nativity costumes, for ex-

ample, Joseph, Mary, Kings, Angels, Shepherds, donkey and

animals. Father George would like to create a living Nativity

scene and involve the children of the school and parish

through the Mass.